49 Bible Verses about Family Problems

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.